Overdoor Decoration
Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648–1721)
c. 1675–1677
- Medium
- limewood
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 68.6 x 86.4 cm (27 x 34 in.)
- Culture
- England, 17th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This wood carving by Grinling Gibbons, England’s most famous master of this medium, comes from the decoration above a door of the Inner Library at Cassiobury Park, near London, one of the artist’s earliest commissions. Decorative elements from this house were sold after it was pulled down in 1922, but many rooms were photographed before their destruction, and the original location of surviving carvings can thus be identified.
